VP, Strategy Consulting
About Us
CMB is a full-service AI-enabled insights and strategy firm based in Boston. As a Top 25 Insights & Analytics company, we help leading Global brands engage, innovate, and grow by combining market research, advanced analytics, consumer psychology, AI+HI solutions, and strategic consulting. Our people are our power, and our employee-owned culture values curiosity, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
What about our culture?Simply put, our people are our power.At CMB,we’reproud to becertified as a Great Place to Work, a recognition that reflects the diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment our team creates every day. We bring together bright perspectives and curious minds who challenge assumptions, share ideas, and push one another to be better.
Innovation is deeply embedded in how we work. That commitment has earned us recognition as one of the GRIT Top 50 Most Innovative Companies, and it shows up daily in how we approach research, insights, and client impact. At CMB, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to achieve your full potential — from learning new skills and expanding your expertise to advancing your career in an environment where you are supported, valued, and encouraged to innovate.
Our benefits say a lot about how much we value our employees: we offer a fully paid sabbatical, an annual wellness day, paid time off to volunteer, generous medical plans, a 401k match, and more. Every employee also gets to enjoy an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
ESOP?Yes, we are 100% employee owned!An ESOP isa qualified retirement plan,similar toa 401k, but youdon’thave to make anyfinancialcontributions toparticipatein the rewards.Whenwe each work hard to provide exceptional service and deliverables to our clients, the positive performance of the company increases the value of our stock and enables the accumulation of wealth for all our employee-owners.
About the Position
The VP, Strategy Consulting is a client-facing executive responsible for leading CMB's insights-powered and growth-focused consulting practice, expanding the firm's role beyond serving Insights leaders to advising senior marketing, strategy, innovation, and business leaders. This person will build and lead a consulting team to address complex growth, customer, marketing, innovation, and competitive challenges. This position reports to the SVP of Growth Strategy.
The primary responsibility is building and leading a consulting practice of cross-disciplinary strategists who transform our strategic insights and activation work along with our AI+HI solutions into integrated decision guidance and implementation advisory services. This role partners closely with Growth, Research, Analytics, and Industry Practice Leaders to shape opportunities from the earliest business conversations through implementation. The VP also serves as visible external leader for CMB by building relationships with senior executives, leading strategic pursuits, and establishing CMB as a distinctive insights-powered growth consultancy. This role can be hybrid in Boston or remote in the US.
About You
You are a strategy consultant and practice builder who has a reputation for establishing trust with senior leaders at large global companies. You thrive in ambiguity as a strategic systems thinker who naturally connects customer, market, competitive, and organizational insights into practical business growth strategies. Clients and colleagues seek your perspective because you simplify complexity, facilitate executive conversations, and turn evidence into practical strategies that organizations can act upon.
You are equally comfortable advising senior growth leaders, leading a strategy consulting team, and partnering with Business Development on client engagement. You are energized by the opportunity to build and grow an integrated strategy consulting practice.
About Your Background
You bring 15+ years of experience in strategy and growth consulting for Fo